"Welcome to the intriguing fic of A Sharp-tooth's Heart."

"The end is drawing nigh as our weary adventurers are reaching their limit."

"A group of dinosaurs are struggling to keep each other alive, yet they are not aware of the others…"

"An enemy that turned merciful…"

"A dinosaur who survived a struggle…"

"And those who claim to know a secret…"

"These three will collide in…"
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18

WAR
THE BIGGEST FIGHT
"War…"
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"You are one of them…"

Rex stops in his tracks as that voice echoes through him. Behind him stands another of those mysterious black and red dinosaurs, however, this is the same dinosaur that Kumo encountered, the one with the scar from his back to his chest.

"And…Like him…"

Rex turns around slowly to face the dinosaur, only to find that he has disappeared. But from behind Rex, the black and red dinosaur stands, apparently he ran around Rex, and with the use of the bushes and trees, he did it unnoticed.

"Do you wish to know what you are?"

Rex turned to face the dinosaur, "I want to first know why you're following me! And how can you know what kind of dinosaur I am?!"

The mysterious black dinosaur walks past Rex, who's intrigued and frightened at the same time. He knows what to expect when he agitates a velociraptor-like dinosaur, he doesn't want to get into any more trouble after what he'd been through with Kumo.

"Do you wish to know?" The dinosaur asks the light-blue dinosaur.

Rex stammers, unsure on what to answer. He looks ahead and sees the dinosaur is still walking away from him. "Wait!" Rex cries as he catches up to the dinosaur.

BACK TO LITTLEFOOT AND THE OTHERS

"Why did he let us go like that?" Chomper asks as he washes his wound in a nearby river, "I mean, why go through all that trouble chasing us and letting us go at the end?"

"Who cares?!" Cera replies, "As long as he leaves us alone and us getting our tails back to the Great Valley, we could care less about him!"

"We can't go back without Rex!" Littlefoot added, "We just can't!"

Cera blinks and turns to Littlefoot, "Open your eyes Littlefoot! Rex is a sharp-tooth! He eats meat! We eat green food! He eats everything with meat! We're made of meat! How can we trust him again after all the meat he has eaten!!"

"Cera right Littlefoot." Petrie comments as he lands on Littlefoot's back, "Rex never ate meat before, but now he had, how can we trust Rex again?"

"I…We…" Littlefoot stammered, not knowing what to reply, "Well…Uuuh…"

"See! Even you're not sure about him!" Cera continued, taking note of Littlefoot's expression.

"We can discuss this with my clan." Yu comments as he steps closer between Littlefoot and Cera, "We'll be completely vulnerable out here, so let's go back to my clan."

Cera nods, it may be hard to admit it, but Yu's clan has won the little three-horn's trust. On the other hand, other sharp-teeth have gained her trust, but that was a rare thing to happen. The others agree on Yu's comment, and then Yu leads them to where they last left his clan.

"Yu…" Littlefoot muttered as he walks closer to him, "Just curious…How did you and Rex meet?"

Yu blinks, "Well…How we met?" He asks, Littlefoot nods in return. Now how was he going to explain that they met over a little accident? "Well…If you wanna know…" Yu starts as he walks to the top of a hill with the others, "We met by…" Yu looks what lies at the base of the hill and his eyes widen, "Oh no!"

Everyone gasp at the scene that lies before them. It's war between Yu's clan and Bull's clan. Each clan fighting one another for no explicable reason, just to dominate one another. At first, this was about the revenge of Bull's for the demise of his brother, Zill. But now, it has become nothing more than a fight to dominate the top of the food chain. No revenge is worth this, as Yu and the others stare with widen eyes, they cannot believe how low Bull would go. And they fear even more if this is just the beginning.

BACK AT REX

"Why are you helping me?" Rex asks as he follows the black and red dinosaur who claims to know Rex's species, "And what do you know about my kind?"

The dinosaur kept silent, apparently he's not going to tell, it hints toward the idea of him wanting Rex to find out for himself. Though Rex isn't enjoying this type of thing, he wants to know.

"Hey!" Rex cried as he runs ahead and stops in front of the dinosaur, forcing him to stop, "You're not helping! Why can't you tell me?!"

"Hold…" The dinosaur just said as he threw his head in the sky.

"Huh?" Rex didn't understand this behavior, whatever he is trying to do.

"Can't you hear it?" The dinosaur whispered.

Rex blinked and listened to the wind, nothing out of the ordinary. That is…Until he starts hearing some roars of threat, struggle and pain. Loud stomps and breaks in the winds, the sound of two clans fighting each other. "So?" Rex mutters.

"Do you not recognize them?"

Rex blinks, how could he be so ignorant? It's Yu's clan against Bull's. "Oh no…" He whispered.

"They need you…"

Rex turns to the direction the sounds are coming from. Fliers are evacuating the area, along with some duckbills and spike tails running away from the scene. Rex breathes in and out rather rapidly, afraid of this turn of events. "What do we do?" He asks.

"What will YOU do?" The dinosaur replied.

"What do you mean?" Rex asks as he turns to the dinosaur, "We're in this toge-" He is cut short when he finds that the dinosaur is gone. "Hey! Where'd you go?!"

Another roar hits the air, making Rex turn around rather quickly. He gotta stop a war his very presence and instinct started…

BACK TO LITTLEFOOT AND THE OTHERS

"Yu! Stop!" Littlefoot cries as he runs after Yu, who's running right into the deadly battle field.

"I can't! I'm part of the clan and I have to help!" Yu replies as he stops in the middle of the war zone.

"What good will it do?!" Cera cries as she catches up to Yu and Littlefoot, "It's not like an extra sharptooth will help in this fight!"

"Cera is right." Ducky added, "Nothing is going to change with your help. No no no."

Yu was rather surprised at his friends' negativity about him helping out his clan. Even though they're right, Yu expected some support about his decision, even Chomper seems rather unconfident about their help giving a huge help in the matter. Though, being in the middle of the battle, a sharptooth from Bull's clan spots the kids and goes for a kill.

"Oh no!" Petrie gasps as he sees the sharptooth coming at them, "We better run!"

Everyone gasp as their eyes caught sight of the sharptooth, but it was too fast, they would never outrun it. Luckily, a sharptooth from Yu's clan caught sight of this and attacked the enemy sharptooth, getting it away from the children. The sharptooth that saved the children was Yu's father.

"Dad!" Yu cries out. His father replies to him in sharptooth language, and whatever he said it made Yu's eyes widen. "No! I won't!" Yu replied, but his father continued with a more emotionless tone. "But…" Yu started, but his father cut him off with a growl and instructed his son.

Yu sighed and gave in, "C'mon guys. This way!" He cried as he ran to a direction through the battlefield. Littlefoot and the others looked around terrified at the fight, but they summoned their remaining courage and chased after Yu through the massacre.

But during their little run away, a velociraptor from Bull's clan has caught about their plan and now stalks them, following them through the battle. Some of his comrades have fallen into what he's planning and try to keep the velociraptor from Yu's clan occupied and away from him. "Where are we going?" The sharptooth whispered to himself as the children he follows run out from the war zone and into the forest.

"Where do you think you're going?" A low yet rich voice asks the sharptooth stalker.

"Huh?" The sharptooth asks and turns around, "Ah, it's only you, Kumo."

"I saw you after those kids, what are you planning?" Kumo asks the sharptooth.

The sharptooth starts chuckling, "Well, I'm chasing after them to kill them and tear them apart, limb by limb. Soon, I'll take each and every one of their bodies and chew them up, leaving nothing but bones behind. And as I chew on their limbs, I'll feel the satisfaction of victory over the opposing clan, for the green sharptooth with those leaf-eaters is the son of the leader of our opposing clan. Think of our victory over the death of the leader's clan!"

Kumo blinked at the sharptooth's rather disturbing explanation, but then calmed down and pointed at the sharptooth in a pose, "You know, you always talked too much. That's what I always hated about you."

The sharptooth couldn't help but chuckle at Kumo's remark, "Oh really? You got a problem by it? Well, what are you going to do about it?!"

Apparently, this sharptooth doesn't know who he's talking to. On the other hand, sharpteeth aren't very good at getting along. With Rex, Yu, Chomper and baby sharpteeth being an exception, none of them are. Kumo felt like if he wasn't a threat to the sharptooth, "I'll show you what I'm going to do about it," but that's going to be changed.

"Huh? What-What are you doing?" The sharptooth asked as he steps away from an approaching Kumo…

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A roar of agony is heard all around the forest as the children seek shelter in the forest until this whole war thing between Yu's clan and Bull's clan is over.

"What that?" Petrie asks as he hears the roar.

"The roar of death…" Yu answers.

"Roar of death?" Cera asks.

"You hear that roar every time a sharptooth dies." Chomper answers, "It's a scary roar…"

Yu stops walking and lowers his head. Indeed, the roar of death…The roar a dying sharptooth makes. Yu fears it's one of his clan, he fears that he will lose a partner and a long-time friend. Worse of all…A family member. Littlefoot takes note of Yu's gloominess, "Don't worry Yu, I'm sure it wasn't one of your own."

Yu smiles a bit, but still worried about his clan…They really need help to survive this.

BACK AT THE BATTLEFIELD

"I'm clearing this area for the others to get out. I suggest you do the same."

The body of a dead sharptooth falls to the ground, a sharptooth from Bull's clan. Standing over the dead sharptooth is…Kumo. "Well, what are you waiting for?!" He cries as he turns to the sharptooth behind him, which is a member of Yu's clan, hence the skin color.

The sharptooth had his doubts, but he took the risks and walked past Kumo and out of the battlefield. Kumo somehow took a sigh of relief and turns to where all the other sharptooths were fighting, some of Bull's clan had noticed Kumo's betrayal and have turned their aim toward him. Kumo cocks his head and waits them all out as members of Yu's clan jump unto the unsuspecting sharpteeth.

"This could take a while…" Kumo whispered, but his eyes widen half way when he notices Bull actually leaving the battlefield. 'Where is he going?' he thought to himself.

BACK AT REX

Rex runs toward the scene where he's hearing the roars. Seems like he's getting very close, as the roars gets louder, running over a steep hill, where it leads to a cliff. Rex comes to an abrupt stop at the edge of the cliff, and his jaw drops as he sees what lies before him. A massive battle between two sharpteeth clans! Rex couldn't believe this, all of this because of his instincts and his kill over Bull's brother, Zill. Rex lets himself drop to the ground, sitting up.

"Everything is my fault…" He whispers.

He looks around, everywhere sharpteeth fighting, the wasteland being colored red with blood. This is too much…

"What the?" Rex says as he stands up, taking note of something moving in the forest. It was Bull…Rex gulped, the sharptooth that threatened him and his friends.

'Oh no…'

Rex ran down the steep hill from the cliff, used his wings to get to the bottom of the cliff and runs into the forest after Bull. Rex knows what Bull is after…And it won't end well…Something in him says that.

"So I haven't killed you…" Kumo whispers to himself as he stands in the same spot Rex landed from the top of the cliff, "You may hold the answer I'm looking for…" He continues as he starts walking after Rex.

TO BE CONTINUE…
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"Here is the next phase."

"With time running out, our winged friend must find his friends before the enemy does."

"Alone and with possibly an enemy behind him, things are looking dark."

"But when things look grim, a group of sharpteeth enters the fray."

"Black and marked with red stripes, these unknowns will lend a hand to our winged hunter."
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ARICH
THE MYSTERIOUS CLAN
"Arich, The Mysterious Clan."
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"Join me next time for another chapter of A Sharp-tooth's Heart."